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| Adar II - Nissan 5771 • March - April 2011 | ||||||||
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| Dear Friends News from the CJF New!!! First of it's Kind! Yeshiva University Certificate Program in Experiential Jewish Education: Inspiring Students LA Shabbaton: Creating Community Jewish Job Fair: Making Connections Rabbis’ Yarchei Kallah: Philadelphia, PA: Building Community Interview Skills and Coaching: Training Rabbis New Web 2.0 Guide for Parents |  |   The Yeshiva University Speakers Bureau Certificate Program in Jewish Experiential Education The Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon Sunday Morning Learning Program for Men The Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon Sunday Morning Learning Program for Women The Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Chicago Community Kollel The Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Zichron Dov Community Beit Midrash of Toronto Torah Tours registration for synagogues and YU students Rabbinic resources, drasha materials and more Resources for shidduchim and relationships Championsgate Leadership Conference Like YUTorah on Facebook Follow YUTorah on Twitter     | ||||||
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Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future is launching a bold and exciting new initiative: The Certificate Program in Experiential Jewish Education. Run with support from the Jim Joseph Foundation, the program is open to emerging and practicing Jewish educators who want to impact the Jewish community by establishing or furthering their career in the field of Experiential Jewish Education.
The YU community in Los Angeles, CA, recently hosted visiting YU scholars in ten shuls and six area high schools throughout the neighborhood as part of a YU Shabbaton in LA. The weekend, supported by the Jesselson Family Community Grant, saw eminent speakers including President Richard M. Joel; Rabbi Hershel Schachter, RIETS Rosh Yeshiva; Center for Jewish Future’s David Mitzner Dean Rabbi Kenneth Brander; Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, instructor of Jewish Studies Faculty at Stern College for Women; Mrs. Yael Leibowitz, Judaic Studies Faculty at Stern College for Women; Dr. Rona Novick of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration; Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky, RIETS Rosh Yeshiva; Rabbi Eli Baruch Shulman, RIETS Rosh Yeshiva; and Dr. Efrat Sobolofsky, director of YUConnects. 
Hundreds of job-seekers in search of potential careers in the Jewish communal and educational fields filled Furst Hall on Yeshiva University’s Washington Heights Wilf Campus on Thursday, February 24 for the annual Jewish Job Fair, co-sponsored by YU’s Institute for University-School Partnership and Center for the Jewish Future (CJF).
Fifty rabbis from across the United States and Canada and one from Hong Kong joined together for our annual Rabbis’ Yarchei Kallah. This year, the three day conference (February 28– March 2) was held in Philadelphia, PA and was hosted by Rabbi Yonah Gross from Congregation Beth Hamedrosh and Rabbi Avraham J. Shmidman from The Lower Merion Synagogue. 
On March 13, several RIETS Semicha students met individually with Dr. Elly Lasson, an Organizational Psychologist and consultant, to help prepare them as they start to interview for Rabbinic positions. During these meetings, Dr. Lasson discussed the various congregational expectations of those in the Rabbinate with the students. 
The Institute for University-School Partnership, a division of Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, recently published a guide for parents to navigate the new technologies and services that children are using online, most notably social media and web 2.0 sites.
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Chevra Kadisha Pail